Welcome to the inaugural issue of Spotlight on ATR! A collaborative work by all members of the ATR staff, Spotlight on ATR brings you monthly information on agencies and individuals within the ATR network and helpful feature articles that share sound fiscal management ideas, quality assurance practices, and other news and tips we hope you find interesting and helpful.

While designed for print, Spotlight on ATR will initially be distributed in electronic format. Print versions of this issue will be available from ATR staff at the ADAD offices in Kapolei. We hope you decide to print out copies of this issue of Spotlight on ATR and share them with your staff, boards of directors, clients, and other stakeholders interested in what is happening in the ATR Ohana.

Future issues will highlight a variety of provider agencies from the ATR Ohana, feature success stories about clients, and share ideas about creative service implementation by our faith, cultural, and neighborhood partners. Show your pride in your agency and staff, by tooting your own horn!

We are looking to take advantage of the enthusiasm generated during recent technical assistance site visits by SAMHSA representative, Jocelyn Whitfield, and Altarum Consultants John O’Donnell, Ernestine Coghill-Howard, and Renee Artis. During the April 9, 2009 Provider Forum, we heard offers of practical assistance from many different providers anxious to take on more ownership of communication between ADAD and Recovery Support Services (RSS) Units and Providers.

We’d like to give our provider network the opportunity to do just that! While this first issue of Spotlight on ATR was written and compiled by the ADAD ATR staff, the practical demands on our time to operationalize many elements of the ATR Project will present a challenge to continuing to issue regularly monthly newsletter. We are committed to not compromising other critical grant-related tasks.

As a result, we are throwing open the doors to you, our provider network, to step forward and adopt Spotlight on ATR as your own vehicle and voice. This is your opportunity to share your own success stories, try out your agency’s “elevator speech”, and steer future issues toward practically useful content.

We urge you to make Spotlight on ATR reflect the diverse, responsive, no-nonsense, open-hearted approach that ATR clients discover in their relationships with your agencies and staff. With your oversight and direction, Spotlight on ATR will become the face that introduces the ATR Ohana to others at your agency, to stakeholders in our community, to funders looking for worthy, promising programs they want to adopt, and to potential recovering clients who hear about the work being done in our neighborhoods and ask their recovering peers, “What’s ATR?” Much mahalo.

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